Focus: 

Our activities focus on the determination of material-specific physical / chemical / mechanical properties and damage analysis of tribologically loaded solid system elements, preferably those close to the surface.

Services:

• Determination of material parameters (e.g., structure, hardness, elastic modulus, chemical element and phase distribution, thermal, magnetic and electric properties)
• Mathematical and statistical methods for the quantitative characterisation of phase ratios and 3D texturing parameters
• Materialography and damage analysis

 Expertise:

• Pre- and post-test physical analysis of the history of solid samples
• Competence in the qualitative and quantitative description of solid materials by applying different methods on the macro-, micro- and nano-scale
• Use of image analysis techniques for analysing microstructures (surface or bulk) or the determination of the geometrical parameters of particle systems
• Competent in the use of the necessary microscopic methods
• Competence in the qualitative and quantitative characterisation of composite materials, in particular hard phase and hard particle composites
• Competence in the kinetics of material reactions at elevated temperatures

Excellence:

• Application of mathematical and statistical methods for the quantitative description of multiphase- or multicomponent-materials with special tribological properties
• Competence in the characterisation of tribologically stressed materials in the near-surface region